The Atari Lynx was way ahead of its time - It was the premier 16-bit handheld and the first to feature color graphics. Backlit, too! It also boasted very impressive sound for this era.
Some other cool features: Buttons on both the top and bottom of the face (allowing for left-handed and portrait-oriented play), sprite rotation and scaling (years before the Super Nintendo had Mode 7 ability), and multiplayer with up to 8 connected handhelds at a time (another first - 8 player co-op hadn't been achieved before on a home gaming system).
However, it was running against Nintendo's absolutely unstoppable Game Boy at the time... Atari quickly lost the battle. This was due in part because the Lynx was double the price and ate through six AA batteries in 4 hours or less! Also, the games could only be built on Amiga computers (Amiga was the original maker of the platform), which made for an odd development space.
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Download Links
Archive.org's torrent feature often does not work, so please don't use it - Downloads can fail or be incomplete. If you're wanting to help preserve this set, you can use the links below to download each part you want instead:
What you came here for! Only the best stuff. (105 titles, 23 MB)
Non-games, add-on hardware emulation, and important software to back up. (2 items, 393 KB)
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Champion Collection Release Notes
Special items included:
Unreleased games (made within 5 years after the lifespan of the handheld) and prototypes.
Items removed:
Non-working dumps, duplicates, prototypes or demos of games that eventually saw a full release, homebrew titles, hacks, and unreleased games (made 6 or more years after the lifespan of the handheld).
Additional information:
Tested with Mednafen (1.26.1) and Handy (0.97 65d6b86)
Format: .lnx and .lyx
Please note - File formats:
Mednafen and other well-known emulators can identify and load the headered .lnx format easily, but the unheadered .lyx files (mostly rare prototypes) are a bit trickier. However, I was able to load all of them perfectly through the "Handy" core in RetroArch.
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Internet
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